Chapter 79 - Awakening

The sky lit up as a pillar of light could be seen from afar. Once the light died down, a group of women along with a few individuals arrived to see an egg hovering at the center of it all that was pulsating and constantly absorbing an immense amount of magical energy that was denser than Ethernano. 

"He actually did it huh?"

Selene muttered upon seeing the reconstruction of Caelum into becoming a Real dragon rather than human with the blood of a dragon. He was essentially just a dragon slayer that turned into a dragon and not the other way around.

"Cereza, how long exactly will it take for him to wake up again?"

"Approximately 100 years from now, I'm already amazed how he managed to create this runic array formation and that timeframe is already extremely short." 

Typically dragons take a huge amount of time to be born from constantly absorbing a large quantity of Ethernano in the surroundings which cause them to be extremely powerful upon birth. The reason why Caelum would take that long was due the fact that he doesn't absorb Ethernano alone but Stardust and other energy in the surroundings. 

Caelum knew this and created the formation in mind. This is the reason why it took 100 year of trial and error to create the runic array even with talent would take a considerable amount of time when he doesn't know what he needed to do. Fortunately, he uses the elves' reincarnation from Black Clover verse and uses it as base to successfully create it. 

"Are you sure he's alright?" 

Lily asked a bit afraid that Caelum would feel uncomfortable being in an egg and couldn't understand what he was going through.

"He's our husband, we shouldn't worry and just trust him."

"I doubt spending 100 years with our husband's talent would come to waste."

Noelle and Mimosa trusted their husband, having seen him perform numerous unbelievable feats. 

"It still bothers me that it will take him another 100 years until we can have another restless night~!"

"Shut bimbo."

"Oh come on, you can't deny that you won't miss it!"

Vanessa teasing Secre who blush knowing trying to deny it would only make Vanessa tease her even more. 

"Couldn't Caelum just use time magic to quicken up the pace?"

Charlotte asked, pondering why Caelum would bother to take a 100 years into becoming a dragon when he could just create a barrier and lessen time needed for him to become a real dragon.

"Did you forget that he already applied it and this is already the best he could accelerate without any disruption."

Cereza was the only one who knew nearly everything about Caelum including Mio and Mia since they were part of his soul. He may be talented and could do anything but there are always shortcomings that need to be considered. 

This is the best that Caleum could do with 100% certainty that it won't fail and finally become a real dragon. 

"Alright, the best we could do is wait within the empire until he returned."

Irene said having the rule of being an empress included the others and nodded agreeing to help her in maintaining the empire. Caelum who could hear them within his cocoon inwardly smiled while he concentrated on reconstructing his body into real dragons. 

Eventually time passed his perception of utter chaos while he maintained a stable foundation from his body reconstruction. He peered intently within his energy that witnessed the essence start to change instantly and become disorganized once again before it vanished into complete nothingness. Caelum became nothing, only an incorporeal being without anything beside his mind.  

'Huh? What's going on?'

He was taken aback by the sudden occurrence pondering if something had gone wrong yet remained calm knowing that it wouldn't do anything than make things worse. Caelum soon felt an indescribable feeling of euphoria where his Essence seemed to explode into a massive explosion having become absolute chaos then a whirlpool that had a set of duality violently circulating within his being. 

At the sight of glowing shimmering white energy that had violet outline that was only a wisp and Caelum instantly became distraught yet the energy already attached itself into his being that started to reconstruct everything. 

Outside a hundred years had already passed where the whole mountain range had been blocked by anyone who tried to trespass and was protected by the Archeapeiron Empire. Every single creature in the world felt the disturbances.

"He's about to awaken!"

Irene who was busy discussing with the others about the empire's daily report was when they felt it. The massive fluctuation of energy that causes the world to violently shake even the celestial realm, Elentear and Edolas were affected by the awaken. 

"Hold on Irene! I know you're excited since we've waited this long but we shouldn't head there in case something happens. It's best we wait until he arrives here. I can imagine how powerful the backlash will be once he arrives here."

Cereza explained knowing at his metamorphosis was far too much even with the barrier created to protect those outside. Irene calms down before joining the others to wait for their husband. 

Meanwhile, the cocoon crack opened then soon a hand reach out shattered it and what appeared was someone extremely androgynous that had similar appearance as Rimiru yet was an adult young man. He was bare naked with refined muscles and long fluttering blue hair then soon his eyes were revealed to have shimmering golden light. Unknowingly, the young man transformed into his Dragon God Form!

Crack!

Whoosh!

A resounding loud sound with giant explosions started going off within the mountain range that caused the typhoon and lightning to rain down below. 

After the explosions and shock waves died out, a black-crimson light rose throughout the Dimensional Gap. He still retained his dragon appearance with the addition of four golden eyes and golden tattoo around his scale and his size overshadowed the land where his wings spread, shaking the earth violently. The barrier had already shattered and the mountain range was soon destroyed. 

ROOAARRR!!!

His thundering roar caused every dragon to kneel down before his presence alone and his power that's too powerful started leaking. A power no one ever had, a pressure so much that started breaking almost anything in the world can be felt. 

The gods were terrified by this and ended up not wanting to anger such a creature in fear. Though, some gods were only more determined to defeat him. 

[ Incorporeal Void energy had been absorbed. ]

[ Primordial Chaos Energy had been Absorbed ]

[ Ancient Dragon had True Ancient Dragon ] 

Caelum could see the sky after breaking through the clouds, then soon inspected his new body and understood the difference between a True Dragon to someone with a bloodline. Everything felt more natural than before and soon turned back into his human form. 

'Cereza?'

[ Yes, darling. ]

'How long was I asleep? Also why do I feel like you remove the time dilation that I've placed in the empire?

[ You been asleep approximately 98 years which shorten due to having absorbed the Void and Primordial Chaos Energy. ]

'Tell me about the energy later, now why did you remove the time dilation?'

[ Well, Darling we agreed that you shouldn't be the only one experiencing being alone so we removed it and waited until you were awake.]

'...I'm happy that you were worried about me but you didn't have to do that, sure it's was boring-'

[ And excruciating since you've actually manage to absorbed the innate energy held deep within you. ] 

'Let me guess, it's from my source race trait?'

[ That's right but don't worry I won't tell the others if you don't want to. ]

'You know me, anyway tell me about Incorporeal Void and Primordial Chaos Energy.'

[ Firstly, Incorporeal Void/Nihility Energy is difficult to describe but like Dream energy once mastered could ignore concepts and rules then turn the person's own perception into reality. At the current level you are now won't be able to bring its fullest potential. However, what you can do is erase certain rules for a limited time. Likewise, Primordial Chaos Energy is an extremely dense essence that causes the motion of beginning. The usage I cannot tell you but it is extremely powerful. ] 

'Can't say that some are deliberately nerfing me but I should bite more than I could chew.'

Caelum held out his hand producing two sets of energy with one difficult to describe but it was like negative filter energy that appeared akin to mistlt smoke while the other is white with violet outline. He found that the mountain range had been destroyed and likely killed many creatures, holding out his hand testing out the Incorporeal Void Energy denying the outcome and reverse time. 

Soon enough everything turned back to normal please that he could use it to deny an outcome. Caelum sat back down to stabilize his newfound power finding that the space of Dantian seemed to have an energy that houses his energy and could only guess it was the Incorporeal Void energy while the violent outline of the Life and death was the Primordial Chaos. 

Then checked his Spiritual Sea and found that nothing had changed beside its expansion, even the magic remained the same. After everything was clear, he drew out his Consciousness then a panel appeared on his face. 

[ New Mission! 

Description: Join Mavis and others in building the Fairy Tail Guild. 

Rewards: Sacred Scripture, Chakra Fruit. 

Failure: 10 years of getting chased by Mil-tan.

Time Limit: 1 Year 8 months ]

Caelum memories were still hazy and did not know many things but knew this was an opportunity to have an adventure. He distorted the space and arrived at the throne room where he sat at the throne while the other felt his presence and arrived to find him opening his arms. Though his appearance had change could still know who he was based on his presence. 

"I missed all of you."

"Thankfully you didn't wake up before we gave birth."

He looked at Charlotte who had her stomach grown significantly similar to being 7 months pregnant showing that she was near giving birth. Caelum accidentally spoiled himself and found that only two had daughters while the others were sons. 

[A/N: Shut up you degenerates! ] 

These two are Irene and Selene making Caelum hugged to tighten then soon the dragons arrive kneeling before their emperor whose presence made them overjoyed in delight. 

'I hope I can do the same with my other bloodline soon.'

The dragon roared in celebration having prepared a festival for their emperor's return while Caelum finally got the opportunity to eat after so long. He might not need food to survive doesn't mean he couldn't enjoy it.

"Slow down, Caelum."( Secre )

"Relax, I doubt he'll die from being choked." ( Charlotte )

"Oh come on~! Drink up!!"

Vanessa began pouring alcohol and already became drunk out of mood since she can't get drunk anymore after his metabolism altered into a dragon. Caelum chuckled and chugged a bottle then soon turned his attention to Irene.

"Is there anything that bothers our empires?'

"There is and it's the humans who have formed a council called the magic council that think they rule the world."

"Hmm did they do something stupid?"

"None so far but they threaten to use a magic item that seals all magic in the empire if we don't submit."

"Is that so? Well I doubt they can risk angering a literal dragon empire. Even without magic I doubt dragons would be any less weaker."

Caelum thought people would always fear something they cannot control, afraid that it could turn against them. He took a sip while being sentiment about losing his humanity after turning himself into a true dragon. 

'Me as humans and me as Dragon bear no differences. I am what I am, I am Caelum and whatever my true self is does not matter to me. I am my own being now and don't give a damn about it!'